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Class Starts Tomorrow!
Join us as we seek to understand the voice of God in our dreams. Class starts tomorrow night and there’s still time to sign up!
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You’re Going to Feel Some Pressure
6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. -2 Corinthians 1:6 I want you to think of a Christian whose character you admire. A Christian who is steady and resolute in their…
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Praying in Private
A couple weeks ago I wrote about praying for people in person, and jumping at the opportunity to go to God alongside of someone who is in need. Taking them by the hand, and into the throne room of Heaven to make our requests known to the One Who always wants to hear them. Today…
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2026 Women’s Retreat!
After taking off last year I am happy to announce that Band of Opals will be having a fall retreat this year in Virginia! Our theme this year is Manifold Witness, as we witness the evidence of our Great God and His amazing ways all around us and among us. Mark your calendars and look…
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Praying in Person
Imagine a princess. She’s the daughter of the king. He’s a good king, but oh so powerful. There is no one above him. He has the ability and authority to do anything. Choose the king of every nation, send an army, pay any price, sentence a criminal, provide anything and everything he pleases for his…
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Unqualified
We live in the era of celebrity. Celebrity actors, musicians, businessmen and women, politicians, athletes, authors, and all kinds of artists. There aren’t just a few either, and most days we feel surrounded by them. They are in the news and in conversations at the watercooler. Just turn around and you will see them everywhere:…
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Hearing from God Class Starts in One Week!
Our first online class is only one week away! Registration is open. Join us and share the word, because we were made to live in relationship with God.
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Moses
The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. -Exodus 33:11a NIV Do you ever think about the crazy life of Moses? I mean, what a life! Born as a slave and slated for murder by the order of Pharoah, his mother and sister put him in a basket to float down the…
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Our First Online Class!
It’s fitting that Band of Opals’ first online class would be about the voice of God. There wouldn’t have been a single post if it wasn’t for God speaking so clearly and so gently to me 5 years ago. “You should be writing.” It came quietly and sounded like a thought in my own mind…
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Advent 2025 – Love
Christmas is almost here! I have just a couple more things to buy and a menu to plan for Christmas Eve and Day. I love seeing the lights on the houses, and our tree. There are ornaments collected over the past 20 years that hang there in our living room. There are even a few…